In this episode, we introduce the new format and talk about my resignation from AlixPartners to launch a start-up.

On a personal note, I cannot tell you how nice it is to speak candidly about this process. I feel like the last 6 months have been in “ultra-stealth” mode as I continued to hold my previous job. Now like are in “stealth-light” mode as we haven’t yet finished the branding.

But just being able to talk about the venture openly is a great step, and I look forward to more engagement.

Transcription:

Hi!  I am Adam Neary and this is, “Confessions of Startup CEO.”

This is our first episode, so welcome, and I am very excited to get started. I think the pressure is off a little bit on the first episode because I don’t have any viewers yet, but as you guys start to leave comments and get involved hopefully we can grow a community out of this because I really think there is something in the experience of starting a company a lot of people get excited about, want to learn about, and want to contribute too and give opinions. So hopefully I can be as opinionated in this forum as I am in real life, and we can all learn a little bit as we go.

The topic today is “New Year’s Resignations” and that is not a typo. It is not New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s resolutions are the kind of things you know you often times promise yourself, you are going to improve personally and then by January, February, or March these things are forgotten and you have fallen in your old habits. So for me the easiest way to make sure that I did what I wanted to do this year was to resign from my job. I had a fantastic job at AlixPartners. It is a turnaround restructuring firm where I used to do some great work but they were preventing me from doing what I wanted to be doing which was starting a new company. So I have offered my resignation and I am working full time in coordination with the Founder’s Institute, who you should look up to launch a company. And hopefully that is going to be very exciting. I do have a little bit of experience with a startup before. I did work for a startup in London called Concentra. We had a great time but I moved back here when I got engaged to now my wife, Deepa.

So what is the whole point of this project, to wrap up today’s episode, sort of thinking about the medium itself. I think the reason why people want to get involved and the reason people would want to watch a video or podcast about startups is that it is a challenging process. My startup, the concept we are launching is a startup for small businesses to help them with their data integration, to gather all their data from all around the organization, consolidate all the data and then run the analytics and reports on that. More importantly I think take that step further which is to provide them the recommendations on what they should do about it to make those recommendations to make them actionable. So they are not just looking at reports, they are not just running technology, consolidating data for the sake of data you know it is all about making businesses run better. So you know if you are small business owner and you want to get involved in this process, shoot me a note. If you are just interested in the arts of startups or if you are a consultant who helps small businesses this is your forum to get involved, leave some comments around, and hopefully over time we can all learn together for my business for all of my customers and, you know, for the community. Hopefully we can learn a lot. So welcome and thanks again and we will see you at the next episode. Cheers.